We’re quick to grab any and all WordPress plugins that can give the blog an extra edge or can wire up a feature we’d love to test. Whenever we dream something up to try on the blog, the first place we turn is WordPress plugins. We’ve collected quite the list of favorites. How about you?

As we’ve tried and tested new plugins on the blog, you’ve likely noticed new pieces and parts popping up on our pages—slideups, social share buttons, CTAs, and more. We get asked quite often about which plugins we use. So we thought we’d share!

Below is the list of plugins that power the Buffer blog, along with a handful of others that are on our to-try list.

The 10 WordPress plugins we use to supercharge the Buffer blog

(A note about WordPress plugins: They’re super great, which makes it easy to add a whole bunch without thinking of the ramifications. Here’s a helpful post from WP Engine about the effect that plugins can have on your site speed. Takeaway: Check the quality of the plugins you install.)

1. Scroll Triggered Box

The email capture box slides up from the bottom right-hand corner of the page whenever a visitor scrolls down 60 percent of the page’s height. If a visitor closes the box, they won’t see it again for 30 days. The box itself can be completely customized with whatever HTML text you want; we chose to sync it with our MailChimp list.

And all these numbers and options can be completely customized—scroll percentage, days hidden, position, width, colors, and more. You can even choose where the box is visible, e.g. frontpage, posts,and/or pages.

Price: Free

2. Digg Digg

There are a huge number of different plugins you can use to display social share buttons on your blog post. We’ve got a rooting interest in Digg Digg.

Digg Digg was built by our Buffer engineers a couple years back, and it’s been a staple on the Buffer blog ever since. What we’ve found most helpful with Digg Digg integration is the flexibility of where you can place the share buttons: floating to the left or right of the article (see our Open blog), pinned to the top or bottom of a blog post (see this Buffer Social blog), or manually wherever you wish inside your theme.

(While I’m thinking of it, I should mention that we’re often asked about the plugin that powers our author bio sections. Believe it or not, we don’t use a plugin for that! Our theme designers built the bios right into the template code.)

Price: Free

3. WordPress SEO by Yoast

Many SEO experts would recommend you grab an SEO plugin for your WordPress blog. Our go-to plugin is WordPress SEO by Yoast, which handles just about every element of SEO you could think of.

The most direct impact of this plugin on us writers is the SEO box beneath every post. Here we can choose our keyword for the post—a great tactic for staying focused on a topic—and add a custom title and description. The plugin will also show you in bright green/red text how your post stacks up based on the keyword you’ve entered.

Price: Free

4. Hello Bar

You’ve likely noticed the bright, orange bar welcoming you to the Buffer blog every morning. That’s the Hello Bar, an amazing tool for A/B testing different CTAs and power words—and a pretty great tool for collecting email addresses, too.

Via HelloBar, we collect over 400 email addresses each week on the Buffer blog. Along with the slideup, those two sources account for over half of our new email signups each week.

5. Disqus comments

One of the easiest (and prettiest) commenting systems we’ve found has been Disqus. The powerful Disqus system works right off your standard WordPress setup, allowing you to manage all comments neatly and quickly through the Disqus admin area or straight from the comments section on your blog.

We’ve run into a spate of comment spam on some of our old blog posts recently, and turning off comments for individual posts is as simple as two clicks on a drop-down menu.

Price: Free

6. WP Engine

We host the Buffer blog through WP Engine, and we get a lot more goodies from them beyond just hosting. WP Engine creates daily backups and one-click restores of the blog, manages all our major WordPress updates automatically, and provides security features to keep our blog safe.

While it’s not technically a plugin, WP Engine does add a little menu item to our WordPress sidebar, and we can quickly check there to see error logs, change some advanced settings, or log in to our WP Engine dashboard.

7. Pin It Button for Images

Here’s one people seem to love: the Pin It Button for Images. This plugin adds a Pinterest Pin It button overlay on top of any image that appears in your blog post. Simple as that!

We’ve installed the plugin on the Buffer blog, and we’ve changed the settings so that the Pin It button only shows up when you add a specific CSS class to an image. You can also change the settings so that the button only shows on images on single posts, pages, index, category, and more.

Price: Free

8. Editorial Calendar

When Courtney and I were getting into the groove of posting to the Buffer blog, we found it helpful to stay organized with an editorial calendar. The Editorial Calendar WordPress plugin seemed to do the trick just fine. It grabbed all of our scheduled posts and drafts, and it placed them on a neatly organized calendar so we could see at-a-glance what content was coming up.

Perhaps my favorite feature of the plugin was the cool way you could drag and drop different stories around the calendar, and it would update not only the calendar but the post itself. It was a huge help for keeping all our content organized and our team in sync.

Price: Free

9. WP Hide Post

Most likely our least-known WordPress plugin, WP Hide Post does exactly what it says: It hides posts from the blog.

Of course, these posts are still visible if you navigate there directly. However, they won’t show up in RSS feeds or on the main index page of blog posts.

We use this plugin to publish marketing materials (case studies, interviews, etc.) that we might want to reference later with our outreach efforts or promotions. These materials typically don’t fit the content strategy we have on the blog, so we hide them from our standard publishing streams.

Price: Free

10. MyTweetLinks

Another plugin we keep in the toolbox (but you might not have seen lately) is MyTweetLinks. Think of this plugin as a soundbite source. You can enter a soundbite or quotable via the post editor, and this plugin will create a list of tweets to share and buffer at the end of your published post.

Update: MyTweetLinks seems to have closed down 🙁

10 plugins we’d love to try (someday)

1. Filament

You might be familiar with Filament’s adopted plugin Flare, a social share button plugin made by Digital Telepathy. You download and install Filament to your WP blog one time, then you can add any number of apps through the Filament dashboard whenever you choose. Current apps include: MailChimp subscribe form, Google Analytics tracking, all-in-one profiles, code management, and share highlighter.

Price: Free

2. SumoMe – Twitter highlighter, photo share, email list popup

Built by Noah Kagan’s App Sumo team, SumoMe has a three-part tool to help promote your website: Visitors can share text they highlight, they can share images they find, and they can easily sign up for a newsletter. You can see parts of this plugin in action at the OK Dork blog and Andrew Chen’s blog. Here’s a screengrab of what the photo share overlay would look like:

Price: Free

3. Click to Tweet by CoSchedule

Among the elements that make up a perfect blog post is one that often flies under the radar: Give your readers an easy way to share your best sound bites. The Click to Tweet plugin by CoSchedule accomplishes this in a really beautiful way. Once installed, you can add shareable quotes right inside your blog posts.

4. WooDojo

Built by the team at WooThemes, the WooDojo plugin contains a suite of fun tools that add a bit of flair to your blog. Several of the WooDojo features deal with the WordPress sidebar and widgets, including some fun installations for social widgets and a tabbed content box.

Price: Free

5. PlugMatter

A few weeks back, we were itching to put a featured box email signup form on the home page of our blog. Before we found a custom solution, we explored the PlugMatter plugin. With PlugMatter, you simply insert a piece of code at the end of your header.php file, then you can design and customize your featured box right from within the PlugMatter interface inside WordPress.

PlugMatter basic comes with a handful of premade themes, and you can upgrade for even more options.

Price: $37 and up

6. VaultPress

If you’re in the market for daily backups of your blog along with strong security features, VaultPress deserves a look. Built by the WordPress team (so you bet they know their stuff!), VaultPress performs daily backups, simple restores, and constant security scans, and you can monitor all the activity from your ValutPress dashboard.

Price: Starting at $5 per month

7. Jetpack

Another incredibly useful plugin from the WordPress team, JetPack features a bevy of tools all bundled into one plugin. Many of the 33 tools are the same as those available to the WordPress-hosted blogs. You’ll find things like contact form, related posts, share tools, and single sign on.

Perhaps the most-loved feature of Jetpack is its built-in analytics reporting. You can check your site stats straight from your WordPress dashboard, without having to log in anywhere else.

Price: Free

8. upPrev

Do you remember the little slideup made popular by the New York Times website that showed a link and preview of related content to read next? Well, wouldn’t you know it, someone made it into a WordPress plugin!

The upPrev plugin shows a related content box when a visitor nears the bottom of a post. The related content can be picked however you choose—the previous article, from a certain category/tag, or a completely random article.

Price: Free

9. Custom login

You can use this one for professional branding purposes or just for fun. On my personal blog, it’s completely for fun.

Basically, you can upload any photo and use it as a tiled background on your WordPress login page. Same goes for the WordPress logo, too, if there’s a company logo you’d like to use in place of the WordPress one. Along with photos, you can change typography, styles, and alignment of pretty much every element on the login page.

Price: Free

10. ManyContacts Bar

Much like the Hello Bar, the ManyContacts Bar is an email capture form that sits in a bar at the top of your website. There’re just a couple differences: The ManyContacts Bar has a bit of animation when it pops onto the screen, there are a couple design differences, and you can set it so that a custom message pops onto the screen after a few idle moments on the page:

All contacts are emailed directly to you and added to one of nine popular email newsletter services, including MailChimp and Aweber.

Price: Free

Pro tip: How to find out a plugin if you don’t know its name

I don’t know about you, but there always seems to come a time when I’m browsing a site and find a feature or tool I absolutely love. How do they do that? I wonder.

Well, if the site you’re browsing runs on WordPress, there are a few simple ways to find out. The sleuthing requires that you know how to look at the source code of a website. To do this, you can press CTRL+U in most browsers or right click and select “View Source.” (Chrome users can select “Inspect Element” to look at a specific piece of code.)

To check to see if a website is using WordPress, look for this tag in the <head> section of the code:

<meta name=”generator” content=”Wordpress version.0.1″ />

To see the name of a site’s WordPress theme, open the site’s style.css file, and look for this section:

To see the name of a plugin, you can browse a site’s scripts and stylesheets, looking for anything that might include the word “plugin” or similar naming. If there is an element on the page that looks like a plugin, the classes and ids of that element might also contain the plugin name. Here’s a good example from Stack Exchange:

Go through the source code and look for any scripts and stylesheets that might be loaded as well as any unique IDs or class names inserted by the plugins.

would all be hints that the theme is using a plugin called Socialize. Here’s a screengrab of what the code looks like just below the buttons for our Digg Digg plugin.

Over to you: What are your go-to WordPress plugins?

We rely quite heavily on WordPress plugins to make our job a little easier and to help the Buffer blog run at full capacity.

Which plugins are most helpful to you?

I’d love to hear which ones have helped you supercharge your blog or website. I’m always in the market for new plugin ideas (as you can tell!). If you’ve got one to share, it’d be awesome to hear about it in the comments.

I just want to mention the LoginRadius WordPress plugin that helps websites to better engage and understand their users. It offers social login and sharing features while giving access to users profile data.

Excellent tips, thanks Kevan! Perfect timing as I’m moving from a WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted site very soon.
I do want to use one of those slide in sign-up boxes, but there’s one issue they all seem to have- I’ve never come across one that recognises that the person is already a subscriber! I find it so annoying, some sites it pops up immediately I click through from the link in their newsletter or email. One site is so bad, with the pop-up appearing instantly on every single page, I seriously considered unsubscribing!
At least yours is set to 60% scroll, which is a plus! Still, it’s something I find frustrating, and also suggests to me that existing subscribers aren’t valued.
Does anyone know of a plug in for this that’s smart enough NOT to pop up or slide in or whatever if the viewer has arrived on the page from a subscription link?

Hi Autumn! Thanks for the comment! I think if you’re coming over from WP.com you might really appreciate the JetPack plugin. There’s lots of good WP.com stuff included there!

RE: the slideup, that’s a great point. 🙂 I wonder if maybe the feature you’re looking for might be available in a slightly more premium plugin, like maybe LeadPages? Sounds like an amazing feature. I’d certainly enjoy being recognized as a subscriber on some sites. 🙂

James Maduk

Thanks for the list.. Especially like Scroll Triggered Box. Make sure to test your setup on smaller mobile devices if you’re going to use it. On a smaller screen it sometimes takes over the entire area and can’t be closed.

Great one, James! That’s a good point. Always good to check these things out on mobile. We actually hide our HelloBar on mobile, using a bit of CSS magic (hiding the HelloBar at a certain device width).

There’s a setting in Scroll Triggered Box for that as well… but it doesn’t always work!

Julia

JetPack is hands down one of the most useful WordPress plugins, but especially for my customers who don’t know much about coding or anything technical. It evens the playing field for them and makes my life easier. 😉 One of the features that really makes it extra handy for me is the auto-feed to my social media outlets when I publish anything. I can choose to publish to all, some or none of them with every post, right from each article itself. This is especially great when I’m on the road or scheduling posts way out.

Another plugin I love is Peter’s Post Notes. It adds a “note” box to your edit post and edit page screen side bars – allowing you to add note details that can only be seen by the admins of a WordPress site. This is great for multiple collaborators or just reminders for yourself about a particular article, or design notes while you’re still composing. These notes also show up in the WordPress dashboard too, so you can easily scan your dashboard and see what’s up. I love it and it’s so simple. Completely editable too. And I love that it keeps everything organized and where I need it, which can then be accessed from nearly anywhere when I’m traveling. There’s supposed to be a complementary email tool called Peter’s Collaboration Emails that you can use together with Peter’s Post Notes, but I’ve never used it.

Oh wow, Peter’s Post Notes sounds really interesting! I can definitely see how this would be helpful for collaboration and organization. Did I hear correctly that you use it to share notes with the author of the post?

Julia

Yes, that’s one way you can use it – for anyone who can log into that wordpress account. (The notes can’t be seen by the general public and they do not show up in the source code.) Only admins can see the notes, so think of them as private post-its for your work. I use mine as anything from a private virtual writer’s notebook on my own blogs (i.e. note to self – be sure to add a section on xyz at the end of blah in the 5th paragraph) to notes for other admin on accounts I work (i.e. this post needs to publish on xx/xx/xxx, but we still need to find an image of a flower with a ladybug). Or (hey Jo, this looks great, but I’d like you to expound on your thesis in paragraph 10) or whatever. Make sense? I’ve even used it for comments on outlines, graphics and brainstorming draft notes that will never become actual posts. Sometimes with my graphic work, I need to play around with displaying said graphic in a draft, then show it to a client. They can leave me notes in that bubble easily without messing with my coding.

It’s a free plug-in, so play around with it and it’ll become obvious real quick how it can be used. I’m sure a team like yours would find it useful. Personally, I’m so glad I found it, it’s so useful and helps me organize. I’m currently auditing a 4 year old site for a client right now and this allows me to go over a ton of old posts and leave notes for us/myself before we make any final decisions on what to do with them.

Karen McCamy

I completely agree! I love Peter’s Post Notes… I’m a solo freelancer, and sometimes I need to make a quick note on a specific post, or sometimes I even do a (very brief) numbered list of points to include in an upcoming article (post). The Notes plugin is perfect for what I need since I only need post-specific info. It shows up in that post’s sidebar, so it’s front-and-center whenever I return to the post. When I complete one of the items, I just edit the note and delete that item! Searched for something like this for months! Been using it regularly for my 2 WP sites for the last 2-3 years…

My go-to plug in is WP-Edit-Pro, adds all the features that missing to the stock WP editor, another one I love is the Linkify Text. I’ve been using the ClicktoTweet.com for a couple of months now, it works well. I tried the Filament plugin and while it was pretty, I found it wasn’t really mobile responsive so I deactivated it.

I’ve recently installed WP Inject on my blog. It searches creative commons images on flickr for use in your posts and featured images. It even drops in the necessary attribution of needs be. Super useful…

Kevan, that’s a great list. I’ve been very curious what plugin you guys used for your scroll triggered opt-in form. I started hunting around and noticed that Belle mentioned DreamGrow deep in the comments of one of her blog posts from August. I’ve installed it and love it. I’m testing it in conjunction with SumoMe’s Listbuilder that you also mentioned. I like how SumoMe only pops up as people are leaving your site, and Dreamgrow appears once someone has scrolled a long way. They are both as non-annoying as they come!

Your welcome. The only thing I don’t like about ScribeFire is you can’t upload featured images. There’s a few other bugs, but is working great so far. I aways save as a draft, then finish up in wordpress.

Paul Lawley-Jones

One social media plugin I particularly like is Inline Tweet Sharer (http://goo.gl/yXlXeT). I found Click To Tweet a little too intrusive, although some might consider Inline Tweet Sharer not noticeable enough. YMMV.

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Well-timed is an understatement for this post. 🙂 I just recently made started helping my wife with her blog and growing her audience, (check out my first “growth report” here: http://bit.ly/1tINw10), and hadn’t heard of a few of these plugins. I’m especially excited about the tools aimed at optimizing email acquisition and my wife will be pretty excited to test out the editorial calendar.

Thanks for putting these all in one place, look for a link to this article in my July growth report. 🙂

I recently found the Disqus comment system on another website, and installed it because I have seen it used on several websites. I would definitely recommend it to anyone with a blog because the likeliness is, as it is used on many websites, that people have an account on it and can easily drop a comment.

We still use WordPress SEO by Yoast, but disabled the sitemap files and decided to use Google XML because I believe they send directly to the relevant search engines. I don’t know if it has helped any, but I feel much better getting the response from the plugin that it has been sent.

We also do have Redirection installed to monitor 404 errors, and redirect pages to their new links. The only issue is that it keeps track of EVERY 404 error, including all the repeats. I would highly recommend using Google Webmaster Tools to track 404 errors, and just use Redirection to make the actual redirects.

In terms of my two blogs, my favorites are mostly listed here. CoSchedule’s ClickToTweet, Digg Digg, Diqus, and Yoast are on both. I also use Zemanta for a related posts bar at the bottom of each post.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a plugin that places an email opt-in (that works with MailChimp) at the bottom of each post?

Hi, Brittany! Thanks so much for the comment! Yes, WP Theme Detector is a way easier way to go, if you want to find out a site’s WP info. Huge time saver! Thanks! 🙂

RE: an email opt-in plugin, I’m wondering if you might try Filament? They have a MailChimp integration, and you can drag and drop it anywhere on your page that you’d like – even, I’m assuming, the bottom of every post. I’d love to hear if this works for you!

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I really appreciated this information, as I’m getting ready to launch a blog. Thank you. In return, here’s info you may want about your Scroll Triggered Box. It popped up twice while I was reading this blog, and it popped up last week too; seems not to be taking the 30-day hiatus you planned.

Courtney Seiter

Hi Sally,
Thanks so much for letting us know about that; I’ll definitely look into it and see if we can get that issue tamed for a better blog experience for you!

Great list! A question though. How to you manage to disable the Hellobar on mobile devices? I noticed it isn’t showing when Im on your blogg with my iPhone.

Courtney Seiter

Hey there! Our engineers and designers tell me we hide it via CSS by checking the resolution. Does that give you what you need to know? (Sorry, I’m a bit outside my technical depth with this question!)

I saw a lot of people mention Disqus (which is used here by Buffer too). There’s a new commenting platform that I think is better called Bublaa. Its a free download on wordpress.org. Also, check out the Atomic Reach plug-in (also free in the wordpress directory). It will help you insure you are consistently writing for your audience and help you with things keeping your writing in an active voice, optimizing your titles etc.

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Your scroll triggered box *definitely* doesn’t wait 30 days – I see it on every post (I checked just now, closing it each time). Very frustratingly it overlaps the text on my browser too, so every time it pops up I have to stop reading, find the mouse, click to dismiss the damm stupid box. I understand it’s useful for converting people but it drives me nuts!! – Jeshyr from @atmacjournal

Courtney Seiter

Hi there Jeshyr! I’m so sorry we’re giving you this frustrating experience; I’ll check into our settings right now and see what’s going on here. Thank you so much for letting us know!

Karen McCamy

If it’s any help, Courtney, I keep getting it as well…every time I’m on your blog…which is like every day! It IS annoying and I subscribe to your list and am a customer! It would be great if you could filter the box to NOT trigger by IP address or better yet…MAC address!

Your content is so great that I put up with it, but it’s still an annoyance!

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Nice list! I used to shy away from Jet Pack but it seems to move a lot faster than it did before. I use it so I can access the WP stats from my dashboard. I started using Digg Digg when Buffer took over and my video tutorial is one of the more popular ones on my YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICdrvSwULU

For security, we install iThemes Security (https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/) on almost all our sites. Most people have no clue how many times per day a hacker attempts to log into their default Dashboard Login. Getting an email notification after a hacker has been blocked is just one of the dozens of security features performed by this plugin.

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Hey guys, great list! For those wanting to edit their pages or theme without knowledge of coding I found a great plugin at http://velocitypage.com/ which turns your wordpress site into a drag and drop website! You can even have a play with a demo on their site!

Stacey C.

Karyn, thanks for sharing!

Itamar O

Thanks for a great post, Kevan!

I’m in the process of moving from a wordpress.com-hosted blog to a self-hosted one, so this is super-relevant 🙂

A couple of notes and insights (in no particular order):
– Jetpack is invaluable to me! I prefer its commenting system over Disqus, after trying them both. Disqus just felt too intrusive, and also sluggish sometimes.
– Jetpack Markdown module is priceless. I don’t like the built-in visual editor, so I write my content using Markdown in Evernote (with a couple of scripts I wrote to post from Evernote to WordPress).
– I use Akismet for spam protection.
– I use WP Super Cache for caching.
– For my migration, which includes changing the permalink scheme, I found Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin to be very useful to keep the original URLs alive.
– MailChimp For WordPress Lite is a nice plugin to collect emails. I guess it’s a matter of personal taste, but I find all forms of pop-up / slide-up/down sign-ups obnoxious and rude… I prefer the static sidebar widget that this plugin supplies.
– I did not know the Yoast SEO plugin. I’m using All In One SEO Pack, which seems fine to me, although I don’t have sufficient understanding of SEO-stuff to be able to compare the two.
– I use Advanced Custom Fields to, well, add custom fields for “special” stuff.
– One of the reasons I don’t like using the visual editor is that it inserts absolute URLs when linking to other posts or inserting images. When composing with Markdown, I find it useful to use the built-in “gallery” shortcode and the “post” shortcode provided by the Post link plugin. I use these shortcodes to insert links / images by target ID instead of absolute URLs, which makes migration whole-lot easier!
– I often write about software, including code snippets, so the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin is a must for me.

I am looking for a plugin that provides sharable soundbites, so finding out about Filemant Ivy (http://filament.io/ivy) here was a blessing. Although I still couldn’t try it out, because of a oddly complex sign up process that seems broken…

Some more functionality I’m looking for (probably in the form of plugins), that I’d love to get suggestions for:
1. Better control over RSS feeds (icon, formatting & markup, embedded images).
2. A way to aggregate social interaction over shared posts back in the post itself.
3. Sandbox / staging area – a way to easily clone my production site so I can try out major modifications (theme change, new plugins, etc.) before deploying on production.
4. Related to #3 – tools to test various aspects of the site health. Measure response time (to check that cache is OK, and new plugins don’t hurt performance), look for bad links / broken images, etc.

Cecilia Svensson

Thanks for your tips!

6 of my favorite WP-admin plugins:

Broken Link Checker – checks for broken links on your site
Custom Sidebars – enables the possibility to have different sidebars on your pages
What The File – shows the name of the files that make up a page
WP Native Dashboard – switch language of the admin page
404page – create a custom 404-page
and of course
Wordpress SEO (the only one we had in common)

Did some digging via google, modified code, tried again, and got it to work!!

Where it says ” Box HTML, simply replace all of that code with your MailChimp basic code and id’s.

For example, here is my code (minus my unique ID). To keep it simple, you can use what I pasted below, buy find your “form action” list name and ID, by going into MailChimp, and copying the code for the Slim Subscribe Form (select the minimal options):

Awesome. And I don’t know how to code, but after a while, you start to see enough patterns and you can eventually figure out some basic tweaks!

Anna Deręgowska-Watza

Jetpack is much more than plugin – it is a pack of plugin put toghether by WordPress – majority custamizable, easy-to-use. Also Jetpack let be treated all self-hosted wordpress sites like wordpress-hosted. Your (sh) posts will be suggest to users, they can subsribe you blog as well as wh blogs, etc.

Paul Minors

Is anyone using the scroll triggered box? I’m adding it to my blog but aren’t very good at HTML. Would love a good template I can resin if anyone has one?

Hi Paul! I’m thinking others might have some really good ideas here, too. I can share what we do: We’ve grabbed one of the premade templates inside Scroll Triggered (the green template), and then you can certainly borrow some inspiration from the way we’ve worded things, too. 🙂 Hope this helps!

Hi, Greg! We sync Scroll Triggered with MailChimp. Sorry I’m not 100% sure what this process might look like with WordPress subscriptions. With MailChimp, you can embed a signup form into the text box in Scroll Triggered. Maybe this might help?

Thanks for the insights Kevan! Quick question – do you track the effectiveness of the scroll triggered box? How many people close it vs. how many sign up or bounce rates of those that close it/get annoyed by it?

We have a similar slider implemented on our site, but it seems to be ticking people off enough to hit that little “x” quite a bit!

I’d be interested in that too, Dan – especially to see how many people closed it. I know it annoys a lot of people so it’d be interesting to see whether it’s really worth it. (I’ve never used it but I’ve been thinking about giving it a try for a while.)

Maryea {Happy Healthy Mama}

Ugh-as a commenter, I despise Disqus. The rest of the tips are fine, though. 😉

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Hi Maryea! Glad there were some good tips in here for you! I’m quite interested to hear more about your Disqus experience, if you don’t mind sharing. I’d love for the tools we use on this blog to bring as much happiness to readers as possible!

(Funny story, I deleted a spam comment that was in reply to your comment, so maybe that’s some of the Disqus displeasure we’re talking about!)

Maryea {Happy Healthy Mama}

For the longest time I just didn’t comment on any blogs that had Disqus because I had to register for it and who wants to do that? I never wanted to take the time to register. Then, I was compelled enough to comment on a certain blog that I registered so of course now it’s easier to comment on those blogs that use it. But I hate that I can’t link to my own blog through the comments. I’m sure many bloggers are discouraged from commenting when they aren’t allowed to link to their own blog. It seems selfish of the blogger to use a system that doesn’t allow the commenter to include their name as a link to their blog.

Ehm, WRONG! You can link to your own blog through your name where you can even write a small bio on what you’re all about. If people are interested in you they will click on your name/profile – in there you can link to your website, twitter and other (just click on mine or anyone else’s, everyone is taking advantage of this).
Or you can do as many others do: just write your address at the end of your post if you want it to be very visible. But don’t be discourage that people are missing to check out your website just because you’re using Disqus, I get lots of traffic through comments I made on Disqus! People actually CLICK on the name and by not redirecting them to something more you’re losing potential readers.

I took a look at your profile, and you haven’t put a link to your website. You do that through Settings 🙂

So no, bloggers aren’t discouraged to use Disqus.

Personally I do feel as you that uhh another thing to be register to… But in fact, you don’t even have to become a Disqus member to comment! Not all blogs allow “Guest”-posts, but many do for those who don’t like to take the time to register (or thinking of those who don’t use social media). Also it’s a one click if you got twitter or facebook! Takes about 10 seconds.

I also have seen a lot more engagement on my own blog since installing Disqus even when I had the easiest comment form before. Hate it or love it, but Disqus brings something to the blog that people seem to like.

Howie

I disagree. I think bloggers are more discouraged and although commenting should not be done only to receive a back-link, it does eliminate the ability to provide a back link for SEO purposes. This is especially disappointing when you are commenting on a post that is directly related to the niche that your blog falls into.

It can help with search engine rankings and therefore, lead to more people finding relevant content. I hate Disqus and I think a lot of people have opted not to comment because they don’t want to register.

At least with regular commenting, the worst part is the captcha, which is only put in place to avoid flat out spam posts and is necessary. The one on my site is 4 characters and very easy. It’s a lot easier than registering and potentially losing comments and engagement on my site because I am making them take another step. Some people naturally may feel it is some sort of scam to get their information, too. I am not saying they are right, but I think people think this way and decide to pass on leaving comments.

The bottom line is that you can set up all commenting to require moderation. Therefore, if someone is repeatedly posting or offering no value, just to get a back-link, it is usually pretty obvious and you can put their comment in the trash or spam. Personally, I think Disqus requires an extra unnecessary step and potentially diverts people from engaging on your site.

However, the majority of the other plug-in suggestions are great. I have become a HUGE fan of Sumo Me, which offers a TON of great tools and features and allows me to do many things from one plug-in download. I love the concept of having “apps” within a plug-in to cause less weight on individual sites, potentially slowing them down.

I also downloaded the scroll trigger box. I am looking forward to seeing it in action.

Regardin Vault Press, I have found an EXCELLENT free plug-in for backups that will serve virtually the same purpose and has been extremely quick and effective, called, Updraft Backups. I highly recommend people check it out. By far, the best backup plug-in I have come across.

Completely agree with @ashley_activia:disqus about preffering Disqus over Blogger’s commenting system having captcha where sometime even you need to write comment again in case of wrong captcha verification.

Agreed. I find Disqus adds unnecessary load to a post, and the mobile experience can be excruciating. Much prefer Livefyre from a third-party point of view, or G+ comments from a social point of view.

Laura Zamora

!!! How Dr.Ukaka Save My Broken Heart Of Marriage Today !!!

My Name is Robert Rivas .I will love to share my testimony to all the people in the forum cos i never thought i will have my girlfriend back and she means so much to me..The girl i want to get marry to left me 4 weeks to our weeding for another man..,When i called her she never picked my calls,She deleted me on her Facebook and she changed her Facebook status from married to Single…when i went to her place of work she told her boss she never want to see me..i lost my job as a result of this cos i cant get myself anymore,my life was upside down and everything did not go smooth with my life…I tried all i could do to have her back to all did not work out until i met a Man when i Travel to Africa to execute some business have been developing some years back..I told him my problem and all have passed through in getting her back and how i lost my job…he told me he gonna help me…i don’t believe that in the first place.but he swore he will help me out and he told me the reason why my girlfriend left me and also told me some hidden secrets.i was amazed when i heard that from him..he said he will cast a spell for me and i will see the results in the next couple of days..then i travel back to US the following day and i called him when i got home and he said he’s busy casting those spells and he has bought all the materials needed for the spells,he said am gonna see positive results in the next 2 days that is Thursday…My girlfriend called me at exactly 12:35pm on Thursday and apologies for all she had done ..she said,she never knew what she’s doing and her sudden behavior was not intentional and she promised not to do that again.it was like am dreaming when i heard that from her and when we ended the call,i called the man and told him my wife called and he said i haven’t seen anything yet… he said i will also get my job back in 2 days time..and when its Sunday,they called me at my place of work that i should resume working on Monday and they gonna compensate me for the time limit have spent at home without working..My life is back into shape,i have my girlfriend back and we are happily married now with kids and i have my job back too,This man is really powerful..if we have up to 20 people like him in the world,the world would have been a better place..he has also helped many of my friends to solve many problems and they are all happy now..Am posting this to the forum for anybody that is interested in meeting the man for help.you can mail him on this e-mail; [email protected] i cant give out his number cos he told me he don’t want to be disturbed by many people across the world..he said his email is okay and you can also contact him on his web site: freedomlovespelltemple.yolasite.com

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!!! How Dr.Ukaka Save My Broken Heart Of Marriage Today !!!

Glorious be unto Dr. Ukaka the great man and ever, my name is Sarah from Taxes city usa. since 1 and a half year I have witness what is called heart broken. my boyfriend that promised me marriage failed me and impregnate me and leave,he dump me,he stop calling” he stop picking my calls,and he no longer respond to me. I have be looking for solution,I fall into the hands of fake spell caster,they rough me off and took my money without help.I have cried,I have weep”and tears runs out of eyes. The silentness in my heart brought me to the deepest path of failure that I lost my job. Crying all day,because of my life was lonely. So thanks to Ukaka that came into my life and brought me the greatest joy that was lost. I saw his mail while browsing and I contact and tell him what I am passing through with no doubt because what saw about him,was enough to believe. And I was given words of solution on what to do. I can’t really help thinking about it I have tried to see what I can do, I manage to provide him some materials and he help me with the rest,after casting the spell, 12hrs later he came with rose on his hand and I was even about going out,i saw him in front of my door when he sees me he knee and said he is dying I should forgive him and accept him back he was crying,I can’t wait to let him finish I quickly crab him and kiss him, just then” he said he is restless without me, just as the prophet has said he will be. He brought out a ring and put it on my hand. Our wedding day was scheduled,1week after we got married. today makes it 2weeks and we are living happily I don’t know how to praise him enough, he has done me a thing I can never forget. And I can’t really share to myself alone, I want y’all to help me praise him because if it is wasn’t for him I already plan of committing suicide. But right now I am now so happy more than I was before. And you out there crying for help you’ve already got one,Ukaka is the man that you need in all rampart. contact his address if you need his service, [email protected] also contact him on his web site: freedomlovespelltemple.yolasite.com

I lost count how many social share widgets I’ve tried but Digg Digg is definitely my favourite. WordPress SEO by Yoast, Jetpack and Editorial Calendar are other favourites of mine and I couldn’t imagine blogging without them. I’ve yet to give Click to Tweet and upPrev a go – thanks so much for the suggestions! 🙂 Great article.

In my opinion, SEO by Yoast is the best plug-in for WordPress websites. It is easy, free and reliable.

Andrew Bermudez

Amen, Vikas!

Karen McCamy

Excellent information on some great plugins, with one important caveat! As a WordPress Coach, I feel it is crucial to say: “Use plugins judiciously!” I recently had a client who had 29 plugins, in an attempt “automate everything.” The result was that the web site was excruciatingly s-l-o-w! Turned out one plugin was creating something like 80% of the “resources” so he disabled it. Still, you’ve really got to be smart about using *front-end* plugins. The most common offenders are loading up on social plugins, and using a different one for each account. YIKES! SEO by Yoast is awesome and one of my standards on new web sites. BTW…I don’t like Disqus either! Half the time (or more) it will NOT log me in and I simply don’t have time to waste fooling around with it. I’ve been truing to comment on this post periodically since it was first published! I think you need to keep it simple for your readers. I use WP native commenting with Akismet and rarely have any spam slip through…

Hi Karen! Thanks so much for the comment! This is great advice to keep an eye on plugins and site performance.

It’s so great to hear your experience with our comments and to know your alternatives. Definitely want to make commenting a good experience for all! Sounds like we could improve here (and maybe with a super simple solution like you suggested!).

Just a quick heads up to folks reading this and considering installing a few plugins: Make sure they are optimized for mobile. Anything that pops up or slides out/up can result in a frustrating user experience for mobile devices and small screens.

In an increasingly mobile-first world, you’d be doing your self a disservices with a few of the plugins above… that is, until the developers get them updated for small screen experiences.

I would like to create an online course using Basic WordPress. What plugin do I need and has anyone tried and succeeded. Thanks

Karen McCamy

@Fred,
What do you mean “Basic WordPress” ? Are you talking about a theme or using one of the included free themes that ship with WP> Are you talking about WordPress.org or WordPress.com? There are some online course plugins, but where your site is hosted makes a difference…

Have you heard of SendinBlue SMS and emailing solution WP plugin ? It is the most reliable, intuitive and free/cheap emailing solution I ever used. You can find further information here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailin/

NP

hyderali

Thanks for this post, Kevan. Some of the plugins I never heard of. Will definitely use them on my blog.

What you use to prevent comment spam? My blog gets hundreds of spam comments & I want some good plugin to stop that. You know any?

Also, would love to see a post on WordPress theme via you. I’m really confused as to which theme should I use. My current theme is clean but looks dull as said by my friends.

Thanks.

Karen McCamy

akismet is the top anti-comment spam plugin, it’s free, and it’s included with WordPress (written by Automattic, the WordPress-managing company).

As far as themes…there are literally 10’s of thousands of WP themes. Selecting a single theme that is appropriate for a specific web site depends on a number of factors, including the purpose of your site, the goals of your site (& business), the demographic (your site audience), etc.

There is a lot more to themes than just “what looks good” although design is one important factor. Just as important however, is content, and providing the type of content that your readers want and need! One final thought about “design” or how your site looks: it’s very subjective!

hyderali

Thanks Karen!

I installed akismet but is not working lately. Will read your post on wordpress themes.

Karen McCamy

Hyderali, Akismet has a great support system. Put in a support ticket to get it working again. They have several “plans” so make sure you select the correct one for your specific site. I have always used the $5/month plan per site. If your site is “commercial” this is the one you should select. The free plan is for personal blogs that will not be monetized in any way. Hope the Themes 101 is helpful! 🙂

Is anyone using mailpoet plugin for newsletter ? Just installed it on my site seems to works ok but need to find a way to integrate with users on wordpress default list.

Karen McCamy

Hey Kevan & the Buffer Team,

I’m looking for an A/B testing plugin for WP…I was sure I’d seen a reference to one or more of these plugins here on your blog, but searched the site and come up with only this post…

Did I miss it somewhere…???

Or, does anyone know of any?

Thanks,

Karen

Steven

Hi

A huge heads up to SEO by Yoast ! Can never go without this plugin. Hello bar is also okay. However, I recently found a plugin called Notiifyd (which in a personal opinion, i like way more due to its simplicity). This can be found here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/notiifyd/

We use this on our social sharing news sites and regularly have posts go viral with millions of hits a month. It really is a GREAT plugin…

This is just a tip for those trying to get a lot more shares, especially this using the Buffer social app!

Wes F Kennedy

WP Hide Post would be great if it actually worked. Still shows up on my blog page and on the “click to next post” area. Can’t believe how many people have asked for a fix to this solution and I never find an answer

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Tim Wilson

Great write-up, some interesting information and handy plugins I’ll be checking out! Whilst I’m on the subject, if any of you are looking to save money on WordPress plugins, I recommend checking out http://www.plugthepress.com for some nice discounts.

My name is Rosie Smith. To cut a long story short I tried about 3 different spell casters over a period of 3 months and all they wanted was more & more money and kept coming up with excuses as to why the spell wasn’t working. Just when I was about to give up I came across several good testimonies of Dr. Oyinbo over the internet. I contacted him and he promised to restore my faith back into spell casters, that they are real and love spells do actually work. I was very sceptical after several scam spell casters. Mine wasn’t a simple spell but Dr. Oyinbo went above & beyond his way to look for extra money when extra work was required. Always called & txt on time. Replied to emails on time. Only asked for half the spell money as initial payment. My partner had walked out on me one day with no explanation …. I was devastated. When I was about to give up hope, Dr. Oyinbo words guided and encouraged me, and then he was back 3 days after the spell was cast. I recommend Dr. Oyinbo extremely highly. Dr.oyinbo you are a gifted man and I will not stop recommending him because he is a wonderful man. If you have a problem and you are looking for a real and genuine spell caster, Try him anytime, he is the answer to your problems. You can contact him on ( [email protected] or [email protected]) or call him +2348074066640. He is the best caster that can help you with your problems. He restored my faith and I AM FINALLY HAPPY.

Hellobar gets blocked by browsers and support said I had some blocking enabled or anything LOL.

I see it works here though… still a joke in my opinion. Dig Dig is very ugly and SumoMe is ok if you are 12… and ok with slowing your site, a lot.

The rest are cool.

Kateryna

Good article. I think it would be really usefull to focus little bit more on content creating plugins, because in the end the most important for a website is to be attractive for users.
There is a great solution from h5p.org (https://wordpress.org/plugins/h5p/) to create for free highly cusgtomized and interactive content like interactive vidoes, images, quizzes etc. I really like this plugin because you can create various summaries, images with hotspots and even games with html5.

This post has been crafted considering the factors that directly influence the SEO, like page speed, social shares, optimization… Google analytics by Yoast is just a plugin which allows you to track clicks on individual links and track your overall website visitors im using two SEO plugins on my site brightverge.com one is Yoast and other is easy seo wp plugin both are working excellent… But it’s just an analytic tool and noting more. You said WP supercache works better on your server than w3 total cache, I am eager to know your server’s configuration…..

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FreshMail newsletter for WordPress allows you easily add sign-up forms and sign-up checkboxes to your WordPress website.
– Define popup layouts by choosing styles or creating your own. Live previews of the final project as it’s being created.
– Display sign-up forms in popups and define when it will be displayed.
– Enabling automatic sign-up to a subscription with the use of a checkbox added to other standard WordPress forms like: adding comments or user registration. Adding a checkbox to any other form with a few lines of code.
– Get reports on the sources of users’ registration in a selected period and check which form or checkbox generates the most new subscribers.

A year or so a go, we had Jetpack go insane somehow on a blog I was managing — not on hosting I have real control over, so my tools were limited — and start chewing up massive amounts of CPU time, to the extent that the ISP shut down the site for several hours, until I could sort out what was going on.

This was, as I recall, a known bug, I don’t know if it’s been fixed since then, but I’m still a little leery of Jetpack.

I love the SEO Yoast plugin too tho (the paid-for) Scribe is even better – and a great way to teach you good SEO practice. However, my web developer says plugins slow down a site so prefers to handwrite code – is he right? BTW anyone know the plugin for checking broken links on my WP site pls?

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I find wpthemedetector.com useful for checking out the types of wordpress plugins if I don’t know its name.

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i have grown really fond of the map plug-ins. I
really like them. Whenever I have to demonstrate something using maps, I
use the wordpress plug-ins. Fla-shop has been my best choice so far. These plug-ins
are smooth and easy to use. They can be easily integrated in the site. In fact,
it is not just of USA, you can also get maps of other countries. And yes, there
is support for iPad and iPhone 🙂 which makes it easier and less
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Wow a great, nice and very helpful collection for newbies.. you have mentioned very great and most popular plugins to boost up our site quality….well it helped me so much..thanks for sharing.http://www.whmpress.com/features

Awesome list!! One more can be added to this list WordPress Backup to Dropbox WPB2D. This is a very essential plugin for keeping backup of your complete blog. By the way it was interesting to know regarding new plugin like woodojo.

You are just not far from the truth, I personally use these plugins and they are simply amazing, especially the Wordfence and Yoast SEO.. They bring live into WordPress website and saves you a lot of manual stress !!

In case you wanted to try an alternative Related Content tool, Shareaholic for WordPress (https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/) has 1.3M downloads and makes it simple for publishers to get more out of their hard-earned pageviews. With billions of data points, we know which articles readers are more likely to view (and love) next. Perhaps you and the Buffer team can try it out!

I’m another big fan of Yoast, it’s helpful without being intrusive which means when I’m writing I don’t feel like SEO is the only thing I’m thinking about! I also love the jetpack analytics, as it also seems slightly more accurate than google for session numbers, though not as good for referee links

Keni Xhezo

where do i find a plug in that can fix the posts format pls?

Karen McCamy

Keni,
Your *theme* controls your post formats. If you’re not happy with the formats in your theme, I suggest you try locating a different theme. If you could be specific about what theme you are trying to change, it would be easier to make recommendations.

Feel free to contact me offline (through Discus), since it would be off-topic to continue a discussion about themes in this thread…

I would like to add a daily news feed type post to my blog featuring the top news in my industry from across the web. Not in a widget area but in an actual post itself. Is there such a plugin? I am not having any luck finding one. Thanks for your help! And by the way, great article. i use many of the plugins mentioned on several of my blogs. One of my favorites is SEO by Yoast as mentioned many times here. I also love the WP editorial calendar plugin.

Heidi Richards Mooney

Karen McCamy

Hi Heidi,
Not sure what you are envisioning for a “daily news feed” post. Usually post types are handled by your theme… If you could provide a visual (screenshot or drawing) that would help a lot…

As I have written elsewhere in the comment thread, you don’t want to have plugins do “all the work” as your site can become bloated and bogged down in speed…

There *might* be a plugin that would meet your needs, but it is more likely that you’d need to either (1) have a custom post type designed by a developer, or (2) look for a theme that has that post type “built-in.”

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In case you are into booking or event calendar plugins, you can always use Sagenda for WordPress https://wordpress.org/plugins/sagenda/ It’s pretty straightforward and user-friendly.
Sagenda may be used as a free booking system plugin ideal for medical scheduling, hotel or event booking and reservations.

This is not the most sexy plugin around, but it is THE first I install on all sites. Wordfence! It has saved me so much time cleaning out hacked code and it is amazing to see how many login attempts you never knew of before.

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The first one I always install is called Bullet Proof Security. It is like the American Express card-I don’t leave home without it. As I am in the web hosting business as well, I always recommend it to my clients. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulletproof-security/

Sure Profits

This post is most valuable to me personally. I have always been using WorPress and am quite familiar with many of the plugins. My favorite however, is YOAST SEO.

Maybe you always wanted a feature that hasn’t been available in the latest release of WordPress. What you can do is either install a 3rd party plugin or write your own custom code to extend the features of WordPress. Now that is what WordPress is utilized a lot for.

I had just go through your blog and found that you have discussed plugins which are very useful in every wordpress website. I have used several plugins in websites for branding, correct look & feel and to promote seo services via Yoast plugin.

Alessandro Fregni

Hi Kevan, very nice article!
I’m interested in DIGG DIGG.. I get a moment of doubt lokking at the last update: 2 years ago!? are you still looking after the plugin?

Daniel Keith

Hi Kevan,
Nice sharing. There is also a very good plugin named Frizzly. It is good to use for the share button on your website. It allows you to share on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.

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